Meletius Smotrytsky

Meletius Smotrytsky (Ukrainian: ??????? ???????????; Belarusian: ??????? ?????????; Russian: ??????? ??????????), né Maksym Herasymovytch (c. 1577 ? 17(27) December 1633) was a Ruthenian (Ukrainian, Belarusian) linguist from Galicia, author and religious activist. Son of the famous Ukrainian religious and political activist Herasym Smotrytsky. Education in Ostrog (Ostroh) and Vilnius, as well as Leipzig, Wittenberg and Nuremberg, later rector of the brotherhood's school in Kiev.

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Ukrainian - Belarusian - Russian - 1577 - 17(27) December - 1633 - Ruthenian - Galicia - Herasym Smotrytsky - Ostrog - Vilnius - Leipzig - Wittenberg - Nuremberg - The brotherhood's school - Kiev

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Smotrytsky is best known for his Grammar of Church Slavonic (?????????? ?????????? ????????? ?v??????, 1619), which codified what is now known as "Modern Church Slavonic" or, more specifically, "Meletian Church Slavonic" and had an enormous impact on the literary usage in Church Slavonic texts throughout the Slavonic countries. The grammar was reprinted many times.

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Church Slavonic - 1619

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